Archive | March, 2013

During Saturday’s panel for Pacific Rim at WonderCon, director Guillermo del Toro said that John Constantine – and he emphasized he l’ be blonde here – will be the main character in his planned Justice League Dark movie tentatively titled Dark Universe. (Ok, it would be REALLY nice to get a grip and decide what’s it gonna be with that title. Is it Justice League Dark, or Dark Universe or the third one, I forgot what was it??) Constantine will be the central figure around whom the League will round up. The director also revealed that the film won’t be an origin movie, but with...

Dwayne Johnson has turned out to be quite a franchise-saver as he did exactly that for yet another one (the other being Fast and Furious, of course), as the huge opening of the sequel to the harshly criticized G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra has led to Paramount moving ahead with a third installment. Read on for details! With this, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has cemented his status as one of the biggest box office draws in Hollywood, as G.I. Joe: Retaliation took the North American box office by storm this weekend. Just as he helped to reinvigorate the Fast and Furious franchise at Universal...

The latest character poster for Kick-Ass 2 gives us a new look at Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the titular character, Kick-Ass. Check out the latest one-sheet for director Jeff Wadlow‘s upcoming sequel below: Synopsis: The teenage superhero returns in the follow-up to 2010′s Kick-Ass, where this green-clad crime-fighter joins forces with the vigilante group Justice Forever, lead by Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey). They must do battle with Christopher Mintz-Plasse‘s The Mother F***er, who transformed into a super-villain after retiring his Red Mist persona. Kick-Ass 2 comes to theaters on August 16th, 2013 and also stars Chloe Grace Moretz, Nicolas Cage, Lyndsy Fonseca, John Leguizamo...

Posted in HollywoodComments Off on KICK-ASS 2 Kick-Ass Character Poster

Arrived at WonderCon to promote Oblivion, ended up talking about Tron: Legacy sequel… Almost like a perfect oneliner for ‘Bad luck Brian’ meme – if this could be called ‘bad luck’, heheh. I am talking, of course, about director Joseph Kosinski, whose sci-fi epic almost ended up at Disney’s, but they passed it – deeming the subject matter to be too adult. No such barriers with Tron: Legacy, which earned $400M worldwide on a $170M production budget, back in 2010. Disney expected a bigger box-office earnings (evil empire!) from the Tron sequel, which is why three years have passed since Legacy and we’re hearing only...

Arrived at WonderCon to promote Oblivion, ended up talking about Tron: Legacy sequel… Almost like a perfect oneliner for ‘Bad luck Brian’ meme – if this could be called ‘bad luck’, heheh. I am talking, of course, about director Joseph Kosinski, whose sci-fi epic almost ended up at Disney’s, but they passed it – deeming the subject matter to be too adult. No such barriers with Tron: Legacy, which earned $400M worldwide on a $170M production budget, back in 2010. Disney expected a bigger box-office earnings (evil empire!) from the Tron sequel, which is why three years have passed since Legacy and we’re hearing only...

CBS unveiled the first footage of its summer hit-in-making, Under the Dome, as a closing of WonderCon on Saturday. The short reel – which offered footage mixed with interviews with the drama’s cast and creators, including Stephen King and Brian K. Vaughan – featured the first look at the mysterious dome, and reactions of Chester’s Mill residents to the crashing planes, flying body parts, separated couples and more. The summer series, which premieres on June 24th, 2013 on CBS, follows residents of Chester’s Mill as they deal with the postapocalyptic conditions that ensue when a force-field dome mysteriously encapsulates the town (I’m intensely curious as...

Somewhere between an announcement of True Blood season 6 premiere date and tonight’s Game of Thrones season 3 premiere, this short but enticing new teaser popped up, with taglines “There’s no one to protect us now.” and “The tyrant is rising. It is the beginning of the end.” Check it out after the jump, and then quick for memory refreshment – jobs and lives can wait, anyway! The first episode of season 6 will air on Sunday, June 16th at 9:00-10:00 p.m. (ET/PT). True Blood stars Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Alexander Skarsgard, Ryan Kwanten, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Rutina Weasley, Sam Trammell, Nelsan Ellis, Chris...

The official website for the Ghost in the Shell: Arise project began streaming a new teaser for the anime on Saturday. The website also reavealed the design for the “Rojikoma” mechs, so you can check out both the teaser and the image below: The Ghost in the Shell: Arise anime, which consists of four 50-minute parts, will premiere in Japanese theaters on June 22nd, 2013, and will then be available on Blu-ray Disc and DVD at retail on July 26th. Kazuchika Kise (chief animation director for Blood-C: The Last Dark) will direct the series and design the characters, and Tow Ubukata (Mardock Scramble) will handle...

As you already know, the Warner Bros. adaptation of The Great Gatsby was originally set to debut in theaters last Christmas, but the studio announced back in September that this highly-anticipated drama is moved for this summer. Meanwhile, goodies from the movie are coming our way more or less constantly – this time, the studio debuted six new character posters. Check them out after the jump and don’t forget to click on the images for bigger version. Synopsis: “The Great Gatsby follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era...